Since you are running a laptop I'd say just go ahead and just have 2
partitions, one for swap and all the rest in /
You will then be able to use your limited space much more efficiently. It
doesn't sound like the machine will be one a network that will require that
you do things with your partitions for security reasons and such.

Brian Cluff
----- Original Message -----
> I am installing Linux on my spare laptop and I have a question for the
> experts.
>
> Anyway, what are good disk partitions to use? I want to use this machine
as
> a development environment for Java and web stuff, as well as install
Apache
> and use it as a web server for my projects. I have a small network of
> Windows machines, so this will be my private webserver/development
> environment.
>
> My hard disk is about 3.9 GB in total. When Redhat partitioned the hard
disk
> for the "server" configuration, it gave me the following:
>
> Swap      204 M   hda9
> /boot      19 M   hda1
> /         259 M   hda7
> /usr     1578 M   hda5
> /home    1578 M   hda6
> /var      259 M   hda8
>
> Now, I only expect a few user accounts (I only have 5 people on my
network,
> and 3 are under the age of 9!). I plan to run servlets, multiple threads
in
> Java, etc, so do I have the right partitions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
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